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O. L. PARMENTER.

LABEL-PACKAGE.

Patented July 25, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORVILLE L. PARMENTER, OF CINGINNATI,.OHIO, ASSIGNOR T() GEORGE W.

SMITH, OF SAME PLAGE.

LABEL-PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,625, datedl July25, 1882.

. Application led March 10, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. DEVILLE L. PAEMEN- TER, Ot' Cincinnati, Hamiltoncounty, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Label-Package, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for presenting druggistsand otherlabels in a form wherebythe labeling of vials and other packages isgreatly expedited and rendered less liable Io to' error than by the oldmethod.

The accompanying drawing illustrates my invention in its preferred form.

I provide one or more sheets, A, of thin paper, of suitable quality forlabels, and imprint I5 the same With the names of drugs or otherarticles in some ordery convenient for reference, preferably inalphabetical order, and in columns B separated and surrounded by blankor unprinted spaces C. I coat theentire rear zo surface of such sheetwith mucilage,isinglass,

or other suitable adhesive substance in a similar lmanner to thatemployed for postagestamps. I then, with a suitable sharp instrument,partially sever the labels from one another and from the blank columns Cby means of incisions D. Those portions ofthe sheet immediately in rearof the unprinted portions O are Inoistened and are made to adhere to asheet of paper or card-board, E.- The device 3o is then in condition foruse, which is done by separating with the finger-nail or any thin inystrument the desired label or labels, which, not being adherent t9 thebacking and almost wholly separated by the incisions D, are easily 3 5detached in their proper shape. At G a label is shown thus separatedfrom the sheet.

To put the device in still more convenient .nform,'l customarily bind apack or number ot' such'mounted sheets in a book, F, which may4o'cont'ain or constitute a complete repertory of the labels used in anyparticular business or establishment. Such a book is represented in thedrawing. This arrangement keeps the labels at and clean and in perfectcondition for instant use without the necessity of a cuttinginstrumentto separate the labels, or the consumption of important time and seriousliability ot' error incident to the methods in com mon use, andsupersedes the necessity of previous separation in considerable numbers,with lia- 5o bility to curl up, to adhere to one another, and

to be otherwise deteriorated.

Labels th us cut without being entirelyseparated can be of any desiredsymmetrical form and uniform dimensions, insteadof being in the raggedand unshapely form they assume as commonly cut by knife or scissors.

The backing being of a different shade or color to the labels, or ot' acolor that will contrast with that of the labels, facilitates observa-6o tion of those which remain mounted.

This system enables the user to detect quickly any lack or approachinglack ot a particular label and serves as a reminder to supply themissing quantity. 65

A modification of myinvention may consist in using a backing whoseportion in rear of the columns of labels is cut away, so as to enablethe removal of any label by pressure from behind.

I claim as new and of my'inventionl. A label-package in which one ormore sheets of' labels are arranged in columns, with intervening andsurrounding blank spaces, and coated with an adhesive substance on theirrear, and partially separated with a cutting or incising instrument, andmounted upon a suitable backing by adhesion of the blank portions, thelabels proper being left unattached, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. A label-package in which a number ot' sheets prepared and mounted asabove describedand .claimed are bound into the form of a book in the manner designated and shown.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

ORVILLE L. PARMENTER.

Attest:

` GEO. H. KNIGHT,

SAI/IL. S. CARPENTER.

